Beginnings : Home of the Brave -- Hollywood University : Mrs. Selznick, Messrs. Litvak, Hitchcock, Cukor and Ophuls -- Master class : with Harold and Stella, Shirley and Kate, Steve and Dick -- Change of direction : I Can Get it For You Wholesale, with Stark and Merrick vs. Streisand -- The hunting season : The Way We Were, and the way they were -- Informing revisited : Jolson sings again, and other betrayals -- The moon comes out : West Side Story, Gypsy, and Tom
"Director, playwright and screenwriter Arthur Laurents--author of Gypsy, West Side Story, Anastasia, The turning point and other plays and films--takes us into his life, and into the dazzling world in which he worked, among the artists, directors, actors and personalities who came of age in the theatre and in Hollywood after the Second World War."--Jacket